Since then social networks and news media have been filled with criticism and calls for an investigation of the ICBF.

This is not the first time the ICBF has been accused of unjustifiably taking children from parents and sending them abroad. Colombian channel RCN TV and Colombian newspaper El Tiempo have made similar accusations in the past.

While most Latin American countries allow between 1 and 11 children to be adopted by U.S. parents, the State department registered 212 adoptions from Colombia.

Colombia’s adoption agency monitored after ‘kidnapping’ allegations was last modified: April 16th, 2012 by Arron Daugherty